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Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 101

by Elbart on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @04:03AM (#48465093) Attached to: Firefox Will Soon Offer One-Click Buttons For Your Search Engines

That's why it's important to still donate back to Mozilla

RESOLVED WONTFIX

Comment Re:Ah, good, progress. (Score 0) 101

by Elbart on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @04:02AM (#48465089) Attached to: Firefox Will Soon Offer One-Click Buttons For Your Search Engines

There's a reason why the oh so open-minded Mozilla is using the tightly locked-down OSX for pretty much all their promotion-images.

Comment Re:As long as it fully supports Flash (Score 1) 67

by Elbart on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @04:01AM (#48415747) Attached to: Chrome 39 Launches With 64-bit Version For Mac OS X and New Developer Features

Like it or not, you need to support Flash, 64-bit or not.

Sad to see a 4-digit-ID post this kind of drivel. How the mighty have fallen.

Comment Re:What took them so long? (Score 1) 67

by Elbart on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @03:58AM (#48415735) Attached to: Chrome 39 Launches With 64-bit Version For Mac OS X and New Developer Features

Google devs, are obviously windows developers.

You couldn't be farther from the truth.

Comment Re:Summary is misleading, you can work around (Score 1) 327

by Elbart on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:17AM (#48400475) Attached to: Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X

Their drive responds with the Apple-vendor-string: http://www.macbidouille.com/ne...

Comment Re:Summary is misleading, you can work around (Score 1) 327

by Elbart on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:16AM (#48400473) Attached to: Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X

Yes, Samsung offers this, it's called Magician. And yes, it is automated and runs on scheduled tasks.

Comment Re:Summary is misleading, you can work around (Score 1) 327

by Elbart on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:15AM (#48400469) Attached to: Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X

The security problem of diminishing profit.

Comment Re:Summary is misleading, you can work around (Score 1) 327

by Elbart on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:13AM (#48400461) Attached to: Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X

Why is drivel like that rated 3 Informative? "TRIM is a hack for consumer SSD's" WTF!?

Comment Re:Queue the Apple apologists (Score 1) 327

by Elbart on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:11AM (#48400455) Attached to: Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X

You might want to actually read that list, as it's made up mostly of ODDs and HDDs.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 327

by Elbart on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:10AM (#48400449) Attached to: Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X

Wow, blacklisted ODDs(?!?!?) and old-fashioned HDDs are solid proof for the crappiness of SSDs. Not.

Comment Re:This isn't new (Score 1) 327

by Elbart on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:08AM (#48400445) Attached to: Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X

Your posting is a disgrace to the world of computers.

Comment Re:This isn't new (Score 2) 327

by Elbart on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:06AM (#48400437) Attached to: Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X

Citation needed. Both the built-in msahci and the intel-ahci-drivers in Windows are NOT restricting TRIM in any way.

Comment Re:The Apple SIM is a terrible idea (Score 3, Insightful) 112

by Elbart on Saturday October 25, 2014 @03:26AM (#48227925) Attached to: AT&T Locks Apple SIM Cards On New iPads

No. The "Apple SIM" with the ultimate goal of getting rid of the exchangeable SIM is just a way to bring the CDMA-style restrictions of a carrier-side device-whitelist into the world of GSM/UMTS/LTE-devices.

Comment Re:Not about wars (Score 1) 276

by Elbart on Friday October 10, 2014 @09:22AM (#48110529) Attached to: No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED

Mandela had that covered.

Comment Re:The problem is not FFOS, it's the crappy phone. (Score 2) 132

by Elbart on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @10:20AM (#48082779) Attached to: Test-Driving a $35 Firefox OS Smartphone

"FFOS is a good mobile OS"
No, it's an OS running in a browser running ontop of another OS. It's madness.

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